Google is reportedly creating a Pixel 9-exclusive AI assistant referred to as ‘Pixie’

Siri, Google Assistant, and Samsung’s Bixby are all about to get a second-wave revival in some kind with generative AI. Apple’s been going slow and steady on the task whereas Samsung is reportedly gunning for a launch with the Galaxy S24 series early subsequent yr. In the meantime, Google is getting ready to infuse its Bard large language AI product into Google Assistant, however it additionally has one thing on the again burner that needs to be prepared in a couple of yr’s time. It additionally could determine to revive Google Glass with the ability of AI, however there does not appear to be a strong plan behind that… no less than, not but.

Pixie Mania

That is all in line with reporting from The Information, with two unnamed sources claiming {that a} new, Pixel-exclusive digital assistant named Pixie might make its strategy to the Pixel 9 and 9 Professional gadgets subsequent fall. Pixie would convey superior contextual options referencing knowledge generated by the consumer throughout Google’s companies akin to Gmail and Maps. The sources don’t give specifics on what these options are, however they do be aware that there’s an urgency to comply with up on the preliminary launch by making Pixie out there on the extra inexpensive Pixel A-series gadgets in addition to Pixel Watch wearables as quickly as doable. Google didn’t immediatly reply to Pocket-lint’s remark request.

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Google has simply dipped its toes into incorporating generative AI into its {hardware} portfolio. On the identical time, it formally launched its Gemini model final week, it additionally started to drip-feed enhancements to the Pixel 8 Pro’s Recorder and Gboard apps by loading a minuscule model of the mannequin, Gemini Nano, onto gadgets. The corporate seems to be baking in Nano as a part of a core system service to the Android working system beginning with Android 14, possible giving non-Google telephones entry to generative AI methods inside all types of apps from Google and third events alike.

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There could also be a touch of what to anticipate within the differentiation between Gemini’s basic app-focused method in the direction of making use of AI options and Pixie’s scope on the consumer’s relationship to Google. We aren’t sure that Pixie will run off of Gemini Nano, however provided that Google announced this wee that its intention is to have customers retailer their Location Knowledge on their machine, we extremely suspect the reply is “sure.” Keep tuned, nevertheless, for additional particulars.

Google Glass, but once more?

One supply claims there are discussions at hand to supply yet one more pair of good glasses. Once more, the main points are free and blurry as to kind issue and {hardware} capabilities, however the principle promoting level right here is that the glasses will have the ability to acknowledge objects and environments via some type of AI imaginative and prescient and advise the wearer on what to do like “methods to use a instrument, clear up a math drawback, or play a music instrument,” in line with The Data.

Google Glass had a brief, brutal life within the shopper area with privateness issues over its digicam options, a wonky design, and a scarcity of perceived worth with its $1,500 early adopter price ticket. It did handle to outlive two iterations as an enterprise product, however support for the latest version ended back in September. It isn’t but clear how AI (and some different enhancements given the passage of time) would increase the proposition of day-after-day camera-equipped glasses.